There are a lot of rumors these days about Lotro. Previous post was about Riders of Rohan and now new rumor says that Lotro may have an Xbox 360 release in its future. Brad Nicholson from destructoid.com  wrote:

"The good news is we’re hearing that Microsoft is close to finalizing an MMO model for Xbox LIVE. This is a model that, hopefully, won’t exclude Silver members or force Gold subscribers to pay for two services simultaneously. We contacted Turbine today in order to obtain official confirmation of the console title. Turbine wouldn’t confirm any of the source’s information, yet none of it was denied."

Joystig has contacted Adam Mersky Turbine's PR director and the answer was:

"We saw that rumor, too... We're not talking about what we're working on specifically, only that we're making a console MMO and actively working with Microsoft and Sony."

This unnamed console project is in progress and more information we can expect on summer.

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There is a rumor about next Lotro expansion because the site RidersofRohan.com redirects to the official Lord of the Rings Online site.
Details that you can get on site whois.net are:

Registrant 
        DNS Administrator
        The Saul Zaentz Company, d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises
        2600 Tenth Street 
        Berkeley CA 94710

More information about this rumor read on Kill Ten Rats

Codemasters Online is proud to announce that the latest major free content update to The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria is now live and ready to play! For more detailed information about what new content is included in Book 7, check out our Book 7 overview pages:

• Spring Festival 2009
• Inn Leaque Reputation Guide
• New Mobs and Bosses
• Nornuan Raid Guide - Instance Filikul
• Book 7 The Final Chapter Rewards
• New flowers arrangement for your house
• New Lothlorien House Items
• The Battle of Lorien
• Book 7 Crafting Instances
• New Lothlorien Cloaks
• New Watcher Drops
• Official Release Notes Volume 2 Book 7
• Book 7 Galadhrim Horse
• and much more.....

The new 12-man raid, Instance Filikul, as Turbine has announced, will take teamwork and strategy with eleven of your friends to defeat the corrupt creature within known as Nornuan. This giant Turtle has 688k morale and no adds at all. The Turtle doesn’t cause any dread, fear or disease. The raid boss, Nornuan, hits with an unremovable raid-wide Acid DoT that stacks over time and another DoT that is applied individually. The individual DoT is a bleed out and the trick is if it stays for more than 30 seconds it does more damage over time and the duration refreshes.

Continue reading  Nornuan Raid Guide - Instance Filikul

This year Lotro April Fools starts with a letter in the mail, asking you to talk to a town crier. Talk to any crier to enter the session play and get the quest Chicken Run which tells you to arrive outside of Glan Vraig without being defeated. The only problem is that the starting spot has become a battle camping spot for freeps and creeps - fighting over the chickens. As a final reward new title is waiting for you - Fool!

The best part of the April Fools for all EU players is that April Fools won't be on the 1 April:

The Chicken April fools event comes with Book 7. We will run this event on a date after Book 7 is live on EU servers.
LOTRO Community Officer Faya

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Due to the load on our servers caused by the April Fool's chicken session play, we are disabling the quest. Please note if you receive a mail, you cannot turn it in with the quest disabled. We hope you had fun while it was open, and we're sorry the quest bawked!

Sapience

Tony - MMeOw has made an excellent guide about Hedge Maze as a part of the Lotro Spring Festival. There are 5 different quest givers, all of which want you to do something different within the maze and one of the possible prizes you can get is the fish slap emote, /fishslap.
Also you can decorate your garden with a new garden dwarf or hobbit statue (screenshots made by zick).
Visit our Hedge Maze Gallery and enjoy!

When you finish the final Chapter 9: The Worries of Lord Celeborn Volume II Book 7, you can choose one of the available rewards:

1. Cloak of the Golden Wood,
2. Cloak of the Dreamflower or
3. Cloak of the Galadhrim

Visit our Book 7 Chapter 9 Rewards Gallery and compare these cloaks to Lorien Cloaks and then decide will you keep the valuable Silver Branches for something else.

Few days ago we wrote about new Lothlorien reputation items for your house. During Lotro Spring Festival you have a chance to get new horse, different recipes, crazy keg that will left you pantless somewhere in Middle Earth and also Amaranth, Bloodwort, Bluebottle, Elder, Iris, Lily or Saffron arrangement as a new furniture for your house. Take a look at our Spring Festival Flower Arrangement gallery and decide which one you like the most.

Web Services Downtime Monday, March 30 1:00AM - 5:00PM EST (-4 GMT)

The LOTRO forums, Lorebook, and MyLOTRO will be offline on Monday, March 30 from 1:00AM - 5:00PM EST (-4 GMT) while they are moved to a new datacenter. All LOTRO game servers WILL REMAIN UP during the web services downtime. For more information about the move, please see this post from our Director of Online Operations.

Server Side Hotfix

The LOTRO game servers are tentatively scheduled to be brought down at 11:00AM (-4 GMT) Friday March 27 for a server side hotfix to address stability and other issues. There will be no client patch associated with this hotfix.

We will update this announcement with more information as it becomes available.

If you didn't have a chance to see new Lothlorien house items you should check out Lothlorien reputation items Gallery.
Some of the items are amazing but some of them are bugged like Lorien Battle Standard, so don't  spend your Silver Branches on this item.